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third-class

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third class
n.
1. A class of mail in the U.S. postal system including all printed matter, except newspapers and magazines, that weighs less than 16 ounces and is unsealed.
2. Accommodations, as on a ship or train, that are of the third and usually lowest order of luxury and price.

third-class (thûrdkls) adj.
third class adv.
Translations
third-class [ˌθɜːdˈklɑːs]
A. ADJde tercera clase (pej) → de tercera
B. ADV to travel third-classviajar en tercera
C. N (US) (Post) → tarifa f de impreso
third-class [ˌθɜːdˈklɑːs] adjdi terza classe
third-class [ˌθɜːdˈklɑːs] adjdi terza classe


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Some of the passengers by this particular train were returning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various occupations and degrees, picked up at the different stations nearer town.
Last week he made all us third-class boys write a composishun on what kind of a wife we'd like to have and the girls on what kind of a husband.
Ernestine Wendermott travelled back to London in much discomfort, being the eleventh occupant of a third-class carriage in a particularly unpunctual and dilatory train.
 
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